Youth Programs Are Important Spaces for Emotional Learning

Sex and HIV Education Programs for Youth: Their Impact and Important Characteristics Sex and HIV Education Programs for Youth: Their Impact and Important Characteristics

Needs Assessment Competencies: Are They Important for Extension Educators?

The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of eleven professional competencies related to needs assessment and program development; a secondary purpose was to identify the best time these competencies should be learned. The study followed a survey research design, in which 441 randomly selected extension educators in the North Central Region of the United States responded to a qu...

School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Programs

From the late 1990s schools have been inundated with well-intentioned prevention and promotion programs that address such diverse issues as bullying, HIV/AIDS, alcohol, careers, character, civics, conflict resolution, delinquency, dropout, family life, health, morals, multiculturalism, pregnancy, service learning, truancy, and violence. At the same time, the year 2002 marked the passage of the ...

Harm reduction policies and programs for youth

In Canada, harm reduction has largely become accepted as the philosophical underpinning of the public health response to substance use. Examples of harm reduction strategies include methadone maintenance, needle exchange and server intervention programs. In general, these harm reduction interventions have had adult substance users as their implicit target. Increasingly, however, harm reduction ...

Mentoring Relationships and Programs for Youth

Mentoring is one of the most popular social interventions in American society, with an estimated three million youth in formal one-to-one relationships. Studies have revealed significant associations between youth involvement in mentoring relationships and positive developmental outcomes. These associations are modest, however, and depend on several intervening processes. Centrally important is...